Evaluation of Direct Rapid Immunohistochemical test (DRIT) of Canis lupus familiaris hippocampal touch impression smears using a monospecific polyclonal antibody for rabies virus detection
Acta Medica Philippina
;
: 51-55, 2016.
Artigo
em Inglês
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-632845
ABSTRACT
@#<p style="text-align justify;"><strong>BACKGROUND:
</strong> Rabies is an important zoonotic disease that needs to be eradicated worldwide. It is still prevalent in the Philippines, thus development of a relatively affordable but still accurate and rapid post-mortem detection test for the virus is desired, especially in regional laboratories.<br /><strong>METHODS:
</strong>The study evaluated the Direct Rapid Immunohistochemical Testing (DRIT) of hippocampal touch impressions of suspected rabid Canis lupus familiaris using monospecific N protein polyclonal antibody developed by the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM). One hundred sixty (160) acetone-fixed hippocampal touch impressions were subjected DRIT.<br /><strong>RESULTS:
</strong> One hundred thirteen (70.6%) out of 160 samples tested positive for rabies viral antigen (RVA) and 47 (29.4%) out of 160 samples tested negative for RVA. No false positive and false negative results were obtained. The results agree with the gold standard, dFAT.<br /><strong>CONCLUSION:
</strong> DRIT was able to detect low to high concentrations of RVA in the hippocampal touch impressions based on the grading distribution. DRIT had 100% sensitivity, specificity and over-all accuracy using monospecific polyclonal antibodies, which suggests its use as a more affordable alternative to the gold standard dFAT.</p>
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Assunto principal:
Raiva
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Vírus da Raiva
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Tato
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Medicina Tropical
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Imuno-Histoquímica
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Sensibilidade e Especificidade
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Hipocampo
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Animais
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Antígenos Virais
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo diagnóstico
Limite:
Animais
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Acta Medica Philippina
Ano de publicação:
2016
Tipo de documento:
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